After the meeting with his national security team, Obama said, "We have to do better, and we will do better, and we will do it quickly." However, the American president has not announced any job reassignments.

On December 25, a 23-year-old Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, allegedly tried to blow himself up on board a plane bound for Detroit.

The bomb failed to explode, and passengers managed to subdue the perpetrator until he was detained by authorities on the ground.

The man claimed that he was acting on instructions from Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.

Following the attempt, security measures have been tightened in the US airports.